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My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics. — Christopher Hitchens

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. — Robert Casey

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.) — Stephen B. Pearl

No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. — Henry F. Ashurst

Political life must be taken as you find it. — Benjamin Disraeli

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. — Beatrice Webb

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life. — Manohla Dargis

It takes heart to be in political life. — Pat Nixon

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility. — Francois Mitterrand

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. — Rebecca Solnit

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! — John Wain

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. — Oswald Mosley

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. — Oscar Wilde

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates — Dean Cavanagh

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? — Patrick Stewart

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more. — William Ellery Channing

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led. — Thomas Carlyle

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. — Andre Malraux

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. — Garry Kasparov

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line. — Eduardo Galeano

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. — Mao Zedong

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy. — David Blunkett

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. — Gerald R. Ford

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. — Alec Douglas-Home

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact. — Edward I. Koch

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. — Nancy Reagan

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings. — Jaggi Vasudev

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united. — William Bailey

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life. — David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl Of Kilmuir

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. — Oscar Niemeyer

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives. — Mahatma Gandhi

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration. — Mitch McConnell

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged. — George Osborne

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended. — Winston S. Churchill

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle.

Political elections are not life and death. — Rita Mae Brown

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. — Charlotte Bunch

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist. — Mark McKinnon

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties. — Milos Zeman

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. — Pat Nixon

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. — Paul Keating

The freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life. — Kevin Alan Lee

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education. — Joyce Banda

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties. — Toba Beta

Political life loves some volatility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908). — John Peter Nettl

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket. — Toby Keith

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide. — Alexander Hamilton

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. — Katy Butler

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. — Raisa Gorbacheva

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. — Mona Charen

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. — Tom Robbins

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily — Bangambiki Habyarimana

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. — Susan B. Anthony

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person. — George W. Bush

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology. — Khem Veasna

Life means progress, and progress means suffering. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Political life is best treated with antibiotics. — Colin Tegerdine

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes. — Mark Fuhrman

Life involves a lot of unknowns. — S.L. Wallace

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. — Paul Wolfowitz

1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States ... — Joan Didion

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. — Elizabeth Edwards

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account! — Jane Pierce

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck. — Barton Swaim

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression. — A.E. Samaan

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. — John Howard

I have squandered away my father's political legacy ... My personal life is in a mess ... Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya — Tuhin A. Sinha

I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life. — Amy Carter

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. — H.L. Mencken

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody. — Margaret Cho

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough. — Jim Hightower

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. — Dorothy Day

Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms. — Dmitry Medvedev

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. — Paul Bremer

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country. — Gore Vidal

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard

There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low